Author: justmiaslife
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„The Eddy“ Mini Series Review: When Paris Still Was La La Land
There is just something enchanting about Paris. It’s the vibe of the city, that fascinates us for centuries now and makes us wanting to start a new life in Europe‘s hotspot. Loose ourselves in it‘s dreaminess and follow our goals. Before there was Los Angeles or „La La Land“, like some like to call it,…
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Ryan Murphys “Hollywood” Mini Series Review: Glamour without any substance
Glamour, fame and showbiz baby! With the start of May, Netflix has prepared a mini-series that will give you the tingling feeling of what it’s like to be an entertainment enthusiast – even during the pandemic. Hollywood is being revived – in the truest sense of the word. In the series of the same name,…
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Review: Honey Boy – Alma Har’el
“My whole work requires and is motivated by trauma reminders!” Otis (Lucas Hedges) hisses at his therapist in the first act of Honey Boy. The names are different and some details were omitted, but the true nature of his real life trauma becomes readily apparent. Shia LaBeouf wrote this screenplay during his 10 week court…
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Review: “All The Bright Places” – Brett Haley
Violet Markey is on the ledge of the bridge, contemplating her final moments, when Theodore Finch shows up. He convinces her to not jump, and later, asks her to become his partner in a school project. At first, she resists the idea. She is still too tied up in her grief to go out into…
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“I Am Not Okay With This” Season 1 Review: Stranger Things meets The End of the F***ing World
With the successful series “Stranger Things” and “The End of the F***ing World”, Netflix has created two completely new shows in recent years that have gone through the roof with the audience. So it was only a matter of time until the creative heads of both productions joined forces and mixed the two together. With…
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The Lack of Female Directors at the Oscars: Why Hollywood Still Needs To Learn…
Every year we are having a similar conversation. And for women in Hollywood, change is slow and the progress is hard. It’s no secret that there’s still a tremendous gap between the number of male and the number of female filmmakers, but what is even more frustrating are the lacking nominations of female directors. While…
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Jojo Rabbit: The Relevance of Satire
Try to imagine the following movie pitch: A ten year old German boy enamored with the values of a Nazi regime during World War 2 tries to find his place in the world with the comfort of an imaginary friend and all that in the form of a Coming-Of-Age story. …But with fascism, anti-Semitism, and…
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Review: “1917” – Sam Mendes
It was the exact moment when lead actors George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman appeared on screen, that there was no escape from facing World War I yourself, because the whole atmosphere drags the audience into a claustrophic swirl which takes your breath. Award winning director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”) based his newest picture on a…
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“The Favourite”: A Tale about Power
It’s the exact moment whem Olivia Colman’s wheelchair is getting pushed over the screen, that she theatrically manages to shifts her face into total grieve and screams at her servants to stay quiet. In this moment nobody would assume that she is embodying an elegant personality such as a monarch. But the figure you get…
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Review: “The Peanut Butter Falcon” – Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz
An ode to friendship and camaraderie, to freedom and self-determination and to the meaning of life. Sometimes films are allowed to be nothing more than just beautiful and charming, although they do not reflect the image of a perfect work of art. However, if a story manages to affirm life, lets you have a good…